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OGDEN — Up to 4,800 people may have been exposed to hepatitis C by a now-fired nurse at McKay-Dee Hospital between June 2013 and November 2014, according to the Standard Examiner.

Per information released by the hospital Friday, 49-year-old nurse Elet Neilson (also known as Elet Hamblin), of Layton, was released in November 2014 after her admission of diverting emergency department drugs intended for patients, the Examiner reports. Neilson and a patient treated in the emergency department were both infected with the same hepatitis genotype, the Utah Department of Health reported, and the infections could be connected.

Due to concerns of exposure to the virus, letters to 4,800 people who may have been in contact with either individual were sent out Friday, the Examiner reports. It was unclear who infected whom or the method by which the infection took place, a hospital spokesman said, and officials are unsure if the disease has spread further.

OGDEN — Up to 4,800 people may have been exposed to hepatitis C by a now-fired nurse at McKay-Dee Hospital between June 2013 and November 2014, according to the Standard Examiner.

Per information released by the hospital Friday, 49-year-old nurse Elet Neilson (also known as Elet Hamblin), of Layton, was released in November 2014 after her admission of diverting emergency department drugs intended for patients, the Examiner reports. Neilson and a patient treated in the emergency department were both infected with the same hepatitis genotype, the Utah Department of Health reported, and the infections could be connected.

Due to concerns of exposure to the virus, letters to 4,800 people who may have been in contact with either individual were sent out Friday, the Examiner reports. It was unclear who infected whom or the method by which the infection took place, a hospital spokesman said, and officials are unsure if the disease has spread further.

HALIFAX – Officials at New Brunswick’s largest health authority
deliberated for three months whether to inform the public about
unsterilized biopsy forceps before finally releasing the information and
advising patients to get tested for hepatitis and HIV last year.

Documents recently released under access-to-information laws outline
how staff with the Horizon Health Network spent weeks trying to assess
the risk to patients who may have been exposed to forceps that were not
appropriately sterilized at the Miramichi Regional Hospital for 14
years.

Doctors are monitoring five patients who may have been exposed to
Hepatitis B while they received treatment at Boston Medical Center, the
hospital said Saturday.

“Recently, we became aware that a small number of patients were
potentially exposed to (the) Hepatitis B virus and five patients are
potentially at risk from the exposure,” said BMC spokeswoman Jennifer
Watson. “We have communicated with these patients and are monitoring
them closely. Additional measures have been put in place to avoid the
possibility of a similar exposure in the future.”

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